ImI Do you mean you can go down the road of some Islamic states(of which most of them are notoriously undemoctratic) and just like them declare Nepal a 'Hindu state' (again) ? Why did the founders of countries like the United States, Canada etc did not declare their nation a 'Christian state'. They could have easily done it, after all the vast majority belonged to Christian faith and even today the large majority of the population have some Christian background even if many of them dont necessarily follow Christian beliefs in "hardcore" manner. How many percentage of the population in the US or Canada follow Judaism or Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism or other religions ? It the matter of fairness and one of the fundamental principles of democracy is fairness. By the this matter has to discussed right now. It should have been discussed a long time ago and the politicians of major political parties after 1990 Jana Andolan did not care to put this debate to the mass. This issue was swept under the rug as if the issue never existed. Ironically the Maoists (who are always seen as some undemocratic forces) are the ones who vigorously made 'secular state' one of their demands when they started the 'People's War' in 1996. More fascanating fact is that the worlds democratic countries enshrine 'secular state' in their constitution. Look at the United States or India and so forth. How crap it is tell people that making Nepal a secular state will result in deaths of 10 or 20 people in religious riots. Nepal already has lost over 13000 fought over many socio-political issues (like secualr state) raised by the Maoists which should have been resolved a long time ago. Finally now when there is some progress in resolving an age old socio-political issues (like secular state) you call that a product of minds of uneducated craps. dude, you better take a crash course on 'Fundamental Principles of Democracy 101' and by the way also take some notes on 'Fundamental Principles of Just Society 101'.